Soundbites

Frank Yiannas, Vice President, Food Safety at Walmart

“Blockchain technology enables a new era of end-to-end transparency in the global food system. It allows all participants to share information rapidly and with confidence across a strong trusted network. This is critical to ensuring that the global food system remains safe for all.”

Keith Weed, Unilever’s Chief Marketing and Communications Officer

“This research confirms that sustainability isn’t a nice-to-have for businesses. In fact, it has become an imperative […] they must act quickly to prove their social and environmental credentials and show consumers they can be trusted with the future of the planet and communities, as well as their own bottom lines.”

Jack Lee, CEO of FnConn

“By using the Chained Finance platform, every payment, every supply chain transaction can be more transparent, manageable and easily authenticated. Chained Finance will provide timely, efficient support to far more suppliers of all sizes. It will also help ensure the timely delivery of products to end customers and improve efficiencies across the entire supply chain.”

Key Takeaways

87%

of organizations are at an early experimental / proofs-of-concept stage

10%

of organizations are at an advanced stage of experimentation, with pilots in at least one site